META-X®-Software for Metapopulation Viability Analysis - Herausgegeben von UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle

Meta-X is a user-friendly computer program that allows students, teachers, and researchers to perform a metapopulation viability analysis i.e. to assess the extinction risk of (meta)populations on discrete, partially isolated patches of habitat, in a comfortable way. The CD comes with an extensive handbook which explains the basic concept of the program and takes you on a guided tour through a model experiment. It further provides the necessary scientific background on both metapopulation dynamics and population viability analysis.
A special feature of Meta-X is that it supports comparative analyses of alternative scenarios. This predestines Meta-X to serve as an aid for decision making in conservation management and landscape planning. Furthermore, handbook and software together provide an invaluable help in research and teaching.

List of contents

Installation.- Basic Concepts.- Guided Tour.- The Project Tree.- Scenarios and Experiments.- Simulation and Evaluation.- The Landscape Editor.- Parameter Variation.- Import, Export and Report.- Reference.- Goals, Methods, and Concepts of PVA.- The META-X Model in Detail.- Parameterizing META-X.- Example Applications.- References.

Summary

Meta-X is a user-friendly computer program that allows students, teachers, and researchers to perform a metapopulation viability analysis i.e. to assess the extinction risk of (meta)populations on discrete, partially isolated patches of habitat, in a comfortable way. The CD comes with an extensive handbook which explains the basic concept of the program and takes you on a guided tour through a model experiment. It further provides the necessary scientific background on both metapopulation dynamics and population viability analysis.
A special feature of Meta-X is that it supports comparative analyses of alternative scenarios. This predestines Meta-X to serve as an aid for decision making in conservation management and landscape planning. Furthermore, handbook and software together provide an invaluable help in research and teaching.

Product details

• Authors: Karin Frank, Volker Grimm, Frank Köster, Helmut Lorek, Michael Sonnenschein, Christian Wissel
• Assisted by: UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2014
• EAN: 9783642629068
• ISBN: 978-3-642-62906-8
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 12 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 326 g
• Illustrations: XII, 195 p. 94 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; C, Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften, DV-gestützte Biologie/Bioinformatik, computer science, Botany, Ecology, bioinformatics, Zoology & animal sciences, Biology, life sciences, Theory of Computation, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Zoology, Computers, Mathematical theory of computation, Information technology: general issues, Maths for scientists, Plant Science, Plant Sciences, Computational and Systems Biology, Biomathematics, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Computational biology, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences